Are you kidding. It is an arms race. All this will do is force the US military / government to spend MORE to come up with the next-generation design.

I don't see anything pretentious about it. They call themselves 'hackers' as opposed to painters or writers or photographers. NYC Resistor offers a shared communal workspace, I suspect the label is necessary to inform prospective participants of their modus operandi. On a side note, is it such a bad thing for creativity in the "industrial arts" to be popular? Save the judgement for the hipsters.

I think the summary is talking about lighthouses.

Or baseball players.

Maybe free as in liberating rather than price? I don't mean to threadcrap but I thought Google's intent was to take books that basically nobody have access to anymore and making them available. What use is a previously free work that nobody can read? Ideally, publishers should take the initiative to make all out-of-print, rare, orphaned books available.

God works in mysterious ways.

In the summary (and the article), it is mentioned that "X Windows has issues with network latency and bandwidth." Neatx resolves some of these issues.

Not too dumb of a question. I only noticed it when I had to use it once. Most buses have a rack up front and back to let ppl hitch their bikes on.

I did that once. It felt pretty good.

I think the story here is that they figured out a way to make it into a gel so rather than dunking a large item into a bath of H2O2, you can paint / smear it on. At least that's what I got from reading the summary.

Tooooo sooooooon.

Jesus would ride the fucking motorcycle?

That doesn't make any sense.

The lawyers lose!

I recall reading that article and I think it may have been posted on Slashdot too. The study can then be taken by mainstream media and spun as both positive and negative for either political party. Republicans can be construed as either quicker thinking or they can be maligned as knee jerk reactionaries. Similarly, Democrats can then be thought of as either slow witted or more deliberate big picture-rs. It all depends on which side you are.